Alvarion Supplies WiMAX in Angola

Mundo Startel is rolling out WiMAX services throughout Angola using Alvarion's BreezeMAX solution at the 3.6 GHz frequency band. Mundo will provide Internet access services to both enterprises and residential homes. This nationwide WiMAX network also provides access to remote businesses, fueling economic growth for the region.Mundo Startel is partially owned by Telecom Namibia, along with a number of other local partners, who have committed to invest over $55 million in Angola to deploy 100,000 wireless lines providing voice and high speed data...

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MEF Announces Key Appointments

The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) announced the results of its 2010 Board of Directors elections.President: Nan Chen Chairman: Dennis Kruse, Vice President Network Solutions, Orange Business Services,COO: Kevin Vachon Treasurer: Matt Squire, Chief Technology Officer, Hatteras Networks Director and Secretary: Arie Goldberg, Chief Technologist, CEO and Co-founder, Omnitron Systems,Other board appointments are, in alphabetic order: Margaret Chiosi, Executive Director of Optics and Ethernet Development, AT&T; Craig Easley, Vice President of Marketing,...

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Dell'Oro: Ethernet Switch Market to Begin Rebounding in 2010

The total Ethernet Switch market is forecast to decline almost 20 percent in 2009, the sharpest decline since 2001, before it begins to rebound in 2010, according to a new report from the Dell'Oro Group. The report indicates that 10 GE and data center will be catalysts for growth during the next few years. "Given the severity of the decline during the first quarter of 2009, it will be difficult for the market to rebound quickly to the revenue and port levels we saw in 2008," said Alan Weckel, Director of Ethernet Switch Market Research at Dell'Oro...

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FiberLight Raises $13 Million for its Network Rollout

FiberLight, which owns a 500,000-mile fiber network in key growth areas of the United States raised $13 million from CoBank in the company's first ever debt offering in the capital markets. The debt is comprised of a $10 million note and a $3 million revolving line of credit. FiberLight's strength lies in its fiber assets throughout the southern half of the United States from Baltimore, Maryland to Miami and west as far as San Francisco. FiberLight's product offering includes a full portfolio of optical connectivity including dark fiber, Managed...

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Toshiba Announces 64GB SDXC Card

Toshiba launched its 64GB SDXC Memory Card -- first memory card compliant with the SD Memory Card Standard Version 3.00, UHS104, which brings a new level of ultra-fast read and write speeds to NAND flash based memory cards: a maximum write speed of 35MB per second, and a read speed of 60MB per second. http://memory.toshiba....

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Altair Announces LTE RF Transceiver Availability

Altair Semiconductor announced the immediate availability of its LTE RF transceiver, the FourGee-6150.The FourGee-6150 is an LTE-TDD RF transceiver which, in addition to LTE, also complements Altair's baseband processors for mobile WiMAX and XGP, offering a complete, turn-key 4G solution to handheld devices makers across the industry. The device is implemented with cost effective CMOS process technology and based on a single conversion architecture.http://www.altair-semi....

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WatchGuard Acquires BorderWare Technologies

Seattle-based WatchGuard Technologies will acquire privately-held BorderWare Technologies, a leading e-mail and Web security content and threat management platform provider for mid-sized enterprises, government and service providers. Financial terms were not disclosed. BorderWare, which is based in Toronto, was founded in 1994 and has 90 employees.No immediate changes will be made to BorderWare product offerings, customer support and channel programs. Future new products from WatchGuard or BorderWare will be announced upon their availability....

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WeFi Secures More Funding for Community Wi-Fi

WeFi Inc. announced a series B funding round to support its community-based global Wi-Fi network. WeFi automatically connects the user to the best connection available. WeFi always seeks to connect users to Wi-Fi access points where Internet access has already been verified by other WeFi-enabled devices - dubbed "community-verified spots" - in a growing network of 30 million access points recorded. In addition, WeFi recently released its first generation of carrier-grade solutions for offloading mobile Internet traffic from congested 2G, 3G and...

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Digital Living Network Alliance Expands TV Certifications

The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) has certified more than 400 TV models in the last three months, bringing the total number of DLNA Certified TVs to 669. TVs bearing the "DLNA Certified" logo are interoperable with the complete digital home, allowing consumers to experience a more convenient way to enjoy their digital content. With a DLNA Certified television in the living room, consumers may enjoy audio, video or pictures, from other DLNA Certified products, such as mobile phones, digital cameras or PCs. http://www.dlna.o...

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Verizon's FiOS TV Users Can Tweet, Update Facebook with Social TV Widgets

Verizon is enhancing its recently launched Facebook and Twitter Widgets for its FiOS TV service with additional features that give subscribers even more ways to connect with others while watching TV. The enhancements include using the onscreen keyboard to send Tweets and the ability for subscribers to update their Facebook status with personalized messages.Verizon said that inn just three weeks since it introduced the new Twitter and Facebook Widgets,...

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Sipera Offers New Appliance for Security of VoIP and Unified Communications

Sipera Systems introduced its UC-Sec 100 security appliance for helping small and medium businesses (SMBs) to ensure privacy and threat protection of their VoIP and unified communications.The UC-Sec 100 delivers SIP trunk termination and SIP trunk security to decrease costs for connectivity to the public switched telephone network. SIP Systems said it enables up-to-the-minute protection against VoIP and UC security vulnerabilities and zero day threats, including toll fraud eavesdropping, and data theft. http://www.sipera....

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NTT Com to Offer Router-less Corporate VPN

NTT Communications will begin offering corporate customers of its Arcstar IP-VPN services in Japan the option of establishing easy, cost-effective VPN connectivity without the use of routers. The new "Router-less Plan" will provide customers with router functions via the Arcstar IP-VPN network. Accessing NTT Com's VPN will simply require PCs to be connected to network terminals, without the use of routers. As a result, enterprises will be able to reduce the burden of managing their own networks, including both installation and running costs.The...

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NTT Com Deploys Alcatel-Lucent for MPLS IPv4/IPv6 VPN Service

NTT Communications has deployed Alcatel-Lucent's service router solution as the base for its MPLS-based IP VPN service, which now supports both IPv4 and IPv6 ( dual stack mode) for enterprise users. The service is Japan's first commercial IPv6 compatible IP-VPN service based on MPLS.NTT Com first deployed the Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router (SR) in 2007 to support its IP-VPN IPv4-based service. NTT Com has again chosen Alcatel-Lucent to upgrade...

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